Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of the apprenticeship levy has been invested in apprenticeships in each region of the UK.

Information on the apprenticeship levy collected by HM Treasury and invested in each region of the UK is not available in the format requested.

The majority of levy-paying employers operate across multiple geographical areas which means we cannot reasonably attribute the levy collected and spent in individual locations within the UK.

In England, these employers are free to spend their apprenticeship funding wherever they wish, in locations that best meet the skills needs of the business.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive their fair share of the levy so the devolved administrations will receive £460 million (in 2019/20). As skills is a devolved matter it will be for the devolved administrations to decide how funds raised from the levy should be used in their administrations.

We publish regular statistics on apprenticeships here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeship-and-levy-statistics-june-2018.

These reflect the way that the levy is collected and spent.